Man Utd dressing room's stance on Ruud van Nistelrooy's future speaks volumes

Ruud van Nistelrooy has been successful interim complaint of Manchester United and the squad are keen for him to stay portion of the radical contempt doubts implicit whether he'll diagnostic successful Ruben Amorim's staff

Manchester United's players are hopeless for Ruud van Nistelrooy to stay amid the uncertain surrounding his future.

The Dutchman arrived successful the summertime and was Erik 10 Hag's assistant, earlier becoming the interim brag following his sacking. Van Nistelrooy volition instrumentality complaint of this 4th and last crippled this play against Leicester - and past it'll beryllium implicit to Ruben Amorim.

The Sporting Lisbon brag volition person to determine whether helium support Van Nistelrooy arsenic portion of his staff. Amorim volition bring with immoderate of his unit with him up of his archetypal crippled successful complaint astatine Ipswich Town aboriginal this month.

United's erstwhile striker turned coach, who has been a caput manager astatine PSV recently, has won 2 of his 3 matches successful complaint frankincense far. His opening crippled saw them smash 5 past Leicester successful the Carabao Cup and Andre Onana has underlined the dressing country tendency to person Van Nistelrooy remain.

The goalkeeper told TNT Sports: "100%. He's a precise bully guy, a precise bully coach. He has truthful overmuch acquisition and helium advises america a lot. It's fantastic what he's doing and the players are happy. But astatine the extremity of the day, it's not thing we tin decide. The nine marque the determination and we person to judge it."

Van Nistelrooy has revealed that he's yet to perceive from Amorim, who is successful the midst of his last week arsenic Sporting brag with 1 much crippled to come. The 48-year-old though insists his absorption is connected the squad contempt being successful the acheronian implicit his future.

He said connected Thursday: "I’ve got to cheque my telephone present [to spot if Amorim has messaged] – we’ll spot later. I deliberation that Rúben is focusing connected Braga and I absorption connected Leicester. That’s it for present and it shows we are focused connected the day-by-day job. Let him absorption connected Braga and I absorption connected Leicester and we’ll spot aft that. I’m lone engaged with 1 happening successful my mind.

“I privation my past crippled arsenic an interim – to hole this the champion I tin and springiness the players everything. That is my implicit absorption and different than that I don’t look excessively acold ahead. It’s excessively important.”

Van Nistelrooy was capable to extremity United's year-long hold for a European triumph erstwhile they saw disconnected PAOK successful the Europa League. No factual decisions person been taken connected however Amorim's backroom squad volition look, but the incoming caput manager does privation to bring successful 5 of his colleagues from Sporting.

That includes his long-time assistants Carlos Fernandes and Adelio Candido, arsenic good arsenic the experienced Emanuel Ferro who operates successful that role. If they each travel from Portugal it whitethorn beryllium hard to spot wherever the Dutch manager fits in.

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